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Re:About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in... by minimax on Thursday May 26, 2011 @03:54PM (#2589170)
With that decay rate, the difference between exponential and linear decay is going to be tough to pick out just by looking at the graph.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=plot+e^%28x*ln%28.75%29...

edit: fixed decay constant

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Re:About Linkrot: Proportion of Working Links on Pinboard.in... by fhars on Thursday May 26, 2011 @04:33PM (#2589338)
Yes, indeed. That is a nice graph, and in absence of a mechanism that would explain why no link can last longer than 28 years it should quite convincingly show that linear decay has not been established.
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